Chapter Twenty-Five The First Magic

  As soon as he succeeded in sensing the "starry sky" during his probationary period as a magical apprentice, Lucien immediately suppressed all sorts of doubts and began to search for his own "destiny star" according to the stellar meditation method.

  The starry sky was vast and boundless, with countless stars twinkling endlessly. But after merging his soul and spiritual energy to extend outward, Lucien quickly sensed a familiar flavor among the numerous stars, a flavor that belonged to him. Thus, Lucien stirred up his spiritual energy and slowly approached that still very weak star.

  After an unknown period of time, the spiritual power that blended with the soul's feeling finally touched that star which seemed to be illusory. Then Lucien connected his spiritual power with this star according to the meditation method, bit by bit.

  Suddenly, Lucien's spiritual force was like a piano string being struck, violently vibrating and causing his soul to tremble.

  It was a necessary process and a crucial moment, Lucien continued to extend his remaining spiritual power, stabilizing the spiritual power line that was almost broken due to its large fluctuation.

  This spiritual power line gradually dyed a layer of starlight, and slowly stabilized, while Lucien's soul shook, with an additional reflection of a star inside.

  Greedy for the fine stellar light-like spiritual force lines, Lucien absorbed the "star" power to temper his soul and spiritual power, immersing himself in the Stellar Meditation Method until his soul felt full and stopped, switching to Elemental Meditation.

  This time, Lucien did not use the power of "earth, fire, wind, water" around him to temper his soul and spiritual strength, but instead used meditation to enhance his spiritual strength and sense of "elements". The stronger this sense is, the faster he can cast elemental magic later on. Even if it's a magic that has built an imprint model, it can shorten some of the magic buffering period.

  When Lucien felt a kind of exhaustion from the depths of his soul, he ended his first meditation and opened his eyes, with excitement and joy overflowing in his deep black pupils.

  "Even in a normal state, I can sense the inverted image of the destiny star within my soul. If I concentrate my mind, I can even faintly sense that there is a star in the distant sky that has a mysterious and inexplicable connection with me, and I can borrow a tiny bit of its power. That spiritual energy line seems to be non-existent, existing in another time and space."

  Lucien thought with joy, but soon he noticed something strange. "Wait a minute, I'm from another world, why does this world have my 'destiny star'? According to astrology theory, if the previous Lucien died, his destiny star would fade, fall or disappear. And that familiar feeling just now was indeed the taste of Xia Feng's. Why is it like this? What's the reason?"

  Unexpectedly unable to find a reason to explain, Lucien could only temporarily put down his doubts.

  At the same time, through this meditation and thoroughly deciphering the witch's magical notes, Lucien understood that to feel someone else's spiritual power, he must use corresponding magic, unless it was shortly after breaking through and his spiritual power was still unstable, then it could be directly discovered. And at first, Benjamin should have been able to hear the crying sound to judge that his spiritual power was slightly higher than normal people, not the witch's legacy magic trap specifically aimed at a few people.

  Of course, there is also corresponding magic to converge or hide spiritual power.

  After a brief rest, an excited Lucien opened the witch's magical notebook to see what apprentice-level informal magic he could learn.

  With the "Destiny Star", Lucien can now learn the only three apprentice-level magic in astrology, which is what witches learn after becoming advanced magic apprentices. In apprentice-level magic, it's a very powerful type, but due to insufficient spiritual power, the effect of Lucien's use will be somewhat different, and after using two or three times, his spiritual power will be exhausted.

  The division of magical apprentices is based on the amount of informal magic that can be used from a perfect state to an exhausted state, with five for interns, ten for formal, and twenty for advanced. In other words, Lucien can currently only use five apprentice-level magics in a row at most, and if he wants to use more, he needs to rest or take magical medicine to recover his spiritual power. When using stellar system apprentice-level magic, Lucien may be able to use only three in a row.

  The three star system magic apprentices are: "Primary Astrology", "Stellar Eyes" and "Ring of Uncontrol".

  Here, astrology is the signature magic of the star system. According to the witch, even if it's elementary, a lot of knowledge is required, such as the laws of some stellar movements, how to properly choose other stars that match the destiny star during divination, and so on. It's very complicated. She spent several years barely able to use it, but due to insufficient knowledge, the results of astrology are basically not accurate.

  But to Lucien, the most frustrating thing about primary astrology was that it required a pure and rare crystal ball made of morning dew to assist, which he had no idea where to find, after all, only one witch family had passed down for generations, unfortunately, she carried it with her and was taken away.

  The female witch found the elementary knowledge of astrology complicated and difficult to learn, while Lucien thought it was relatively easy. A large part of it was a chaotic description of celestial mechanics at the high school level, as well as hand-drawn star charts that relied on memory.

  Of course, Lucien still needs to learn about the selection of the main star and the accompanying star, because this is a part that his knowledge cannot understand, just like not understanding why the stars represent fate.

  But thinking that he would be holding a magical crystal ball to cast astrology in the future, Lucien had a subtle feeling rising up, and if he was wearing a black hooded robe, it would be even more evil.

  "The Eyes of the Stars" is a hypnotic and dizzying magic that requires the opponent to gaze into one's pupils, for some reason it was classified under astrology.

  "The Ring of Uncontrol" is, in Lucien's view, a borrowing of the gravitational pull of the stars to form a roughly twenty-centimeter-thick three-dimensional circular ring that can manipulate slight changes in gravity, mainly used for defense.

  After a brief rest, Lucien decided to learn his first magic in life, with the goal set on "Ring of Uncontrol".

  This is because the Starlight needs to be paired with the spell material "Nightstar Grass" powder, and other elemental systems are roughly the same for apprentice-level informal magic, such as "Frost Ray" which requires "Ice Dissolving Stone" powder, "Acid Splash" which requires "Sulfur", and so on.

  Currently, there are few spells that don't require spell materials, and they are mostly from other schools of magic, such as the Mage Hand spell from the Transmutation school.

  Although Lucien can also learn other school magic, the apprentice meditation method is astrology and elements. He is relatively easier to learn these two schools of magic.

  According to the witch's magical notes, Lucien concentrated his mind and sensed the star in the night sky and its almost imperceptible power through the "star of fate" within his soul, then whispered out a strange and ancient incantation.

  This time, after Lucien recited the incantation, he clearly felt that with his vocal vibrations, spiritual power fluctuated and underwent a wondrous transformation, beginning to merge with the gravitational pull of that star.

  Lucien hastily changed his spiritual power according to the simple glyph of "Ring of Uncontrol".

  Unfortunately, due to inexperience, Lucien had yet to transform the runes, and the combination of spiritual power and stellar force terminated, causing the spell to fail.

  After two breaks to recover his spiritual energy, Lucien finally succeeded in transforming the rune pattern after five failures.

  A faint glow that was almost invisible appeared on the repaired wooden table under Lucien's will, putting the candelabra within the range of the magic.

  As Lucien manipulated, the flames on the candelabra were suppressed low and then suddenly surged up, casting the hut in a changing pattern of light and darkness, creating an eerie and terrifying atmosphere, until two minutes later, the flames returned to normal.

  Lucien clasped his hands together, lost in thought: "The range of the gravitational change is too small, it can only make the attacker's weapon feel out of control and unsteady, but it can't make the weapon fall to the ground or fly into the air. It's indeed just an apprentice-level magic spell, and I still need to dodge myself to defend."

  Moreover, the casting time is too long, it took a full five seconds, but after getting familiar with it, it should be possible to compress it to around three seconds.

  "No matter what, this is the first magic I've mastered." Lucien didn't think he could learn "Ring of Uncontrol" so quickly. The witch had spent a whole month learning it back then, so he was quite pleased with himself. "According to the witch's own records, she couldn't understand why 'star power' could cause elemental chaos in the earth, and therefore couldn't analyze the structure of this magic for a short time, and only managed to force her way through by practicing over and over again, accepting the actual effect, and I'm just the opposite. It seems that in this world, knowledge is sometimes equal to power."

  While feeling delighted, Lucien carefully thought back to the process of casting his spell earlier and looked for ways to shorten the time it took: "The incantation's effect seems to be producing a specific frequency that makes spiritual power vibrate along with it. If I control my spiritual power to vibrate like this from the start, I wonder if it'll work? If successful, I can save the time spent on reciting the incantation and limit the casting time to around two seconds, but this way, it seems the requirements for controlling spiritual power will be even higher."

  With the idea in mind, Lucien once again practiced "Out of Control Ring", repeating rest and practice without stopping. After an unknown number of times, when Lucien felt that a short rest could no longer restore his spiritual power, the casting time of "Out of Control Ring" had been reduced to more than three seconds, and roughly recorded the specific frequency generated by this spell.

  "Tomorrow morning, I'll try out the spell without incantation and then go buy some common, non-suspicious materials for spellcasting and potion-making." Lucien thought drowsily before falling asleep, that for a magician, experimenting with magic could help analyze spell structures, master magic, and was indispensable, even if his future path wasn't as an alchemist.